Obscured by Clouds. The rough and ready blog of a cloud benighted biologist and amateur astronomer. Astroblog will cover my interests in astronomy, biology and Life, the Universe and Everything.

Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Asteroid 2009 DD45 flyby update

Ocultation watcher Gerhard has made an animation of the Earth as seen from the asteroids point of view, and veteran occultation watcher Dave Herald has successfully captured the asteroid. Here is his video of the event. The asteroid moves from far right to far left around the middle of the frame, and is moving around 500" per minute. Over at IceInSpace no one has reported success at the moment.